In this Part—

• “criminal investigation” means an investigation of any criminal conduct, including an investigation of alleged or suspected criminal conduct and an investigation of whether criminal conduct has taken place;

• “information” includes—

  1. a

     documents; and

  2. b

     in relation to a disclosure authorised by a provision to which section 17 applies, anything that falls to be treated as information for the purposes of that provision;

• “public authority” has the same meaning as in section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42); and

• “subordinate legislation” has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30).

Proceedings outside the United Kingdom shall not be taken to be criminal proceedings for the purposes of this Part unless the conduct with which the defendant in those proceedings is charged is criminal conduct or conduct which, to a substantial extent, consists of criminal conduct.

In this section—

• “conduct” includes acts, omissions and statements; and

• “criminal conduct” means any conduct which—

  1. a

     constitutes one or more criminal offences under the law of a part of the United Kingdom; or

  2. b

     is, or corresponds to, conduct which, if it all took place in a particular part of the United Kingdom, would constitute one or more offences under the law of that part of the United Kingdom.